What problem does it solve?
Developer-facing products like APIs, CLIs, SDKs, and documentation often have hidden friction points that block adoption, increase support requests, and frustrate users. This Skill eliminates guesswork by running structured, benchmark-backed reviews to surface exactly what's broken in your developer experience, so you can fix the issues that matter most instead of relying on anecdotal feedback.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Three review modes: Choose DX EXPANSION to find competitive advantages, DX POLISH to bulletproof every user touchpoint, or DX TRIAGE to focus only on critical gaps that block users.
- Industry benchmark comparisons: Measures your product against gold-standard developer experiences from Stripe, Vercel, Clerk, and other top tools to identify where you fall short.
- Actionable scoring and recommendations: Traces friction points across onboarding, API design, error handling, docs, and tooling, then delivers prioritized fixes tied to real user outcomes.
- Use case: Use this Skill before launching a new public API to catch design flaws that would otherwise lead to low adoption and high support costs, or to audit an existing CLI tool to reduce onboarding time for new users.
Quick Start
Use the plan-devex-review skill to run a full developer experience audit of your new public API and get a prioritized list of improvements to boost developer adoption.